Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patty Murray

Our entire country owes Sam a debt of gratitude for all he has done for so many,

Jose Andres Puerta

Puerto Rico is the perfect meeting place between Spain, the country I come from, and America, the country where I now belong. The meeting point of two worlds where magic can happen.

Alice Fisher

Providing persons with unknown backgrounds undetected entry into our country is a threat to national security.

Augusto Pinochet

rather die in this country than to go to Spain.

H. Judd

the same as Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.

Jonathan Grayer

The SAT plays an important role in helping admissions officers around the country sort out students, well-deserving students from 20,000 high schools that have different curriculums, different grading standards, and different ability to help students get ready for college.

Lily Tomlin

I've never liked topical material, because it has no shelf life, but sometimes you just have to say something because there's too much going on that's hard on our country and the planet,

Robert Zoellick

It would be a grave mistake to permit any one country to veto America's drive for global free trade.

James Dawson

It would be nice if we had something here in the North Country where there were enough good jobs, good paying jobs, so that our youngsters when they graduated would have an option. They wouldn't have to stay here but they would have an option to stay if they so chose.

R. Laing

Normality highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100, 000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.

Libby Doggett

Pre-K is gradually being integrated into the K-12 education system nationwide. In a state that has so many great universities like Purdue, Indiana and Notre Dame, it's a shame (Indiana) won't do more to ensure its own children are better prepared to enter those schools with high quality pre-K.

David Harris

I've seen a demonstration for children when they all stand around a piano to play a piece of music, but each person can only play their note. It's a similar concept.

Jenny Nimmo

I've read up on magic, and I think it sets you free, and it gives you hope. You can explore worlds you didn't know existed. It stretches your imagination, and I like my own imagination to be stretched and also the children I'm telling the story to. It gives you a sense of wonder.

Ronda Reid

I've noticed them before, but I never really thought about using them. Maybe if I was shopping with young children I'd use them.

Terry Wogan

I've no patience for people who say they never watch television. It's a great way to keep in touch with popular culture, and it's important that children can relate to what their schoolmates are watching.

John Niven

I've never understood why the end of a relationship - especially one involving children - has to immediately signal a descent into hatred and toxicity.

Marty Smith

It would be advantageous for children to actually go into the classroom to learn about Michigan history.

Malcolm Wallace

It would be better if they had more reading lessons, definitely. Even if the children were encouraged by some other member of the education set-up - it doesn't have to be a qualified teacher.

Michael Haynes

The Rooney Rule is doing a good job. It's a nice process, but it does not necessarily mean a commitment to diversity. I think there's a difference. Right now this is working, but there's still some pitfalls.

Alan Keyes

Rights don't come from human documents. The very idea is only worthy of contempt. Human documents are nothing but pieces of paper, they are nothing but words--until by will, and conscience, and courage, and commitment, human beings turn them into reality.

Alan Lightman

Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions? Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.

bell hooks

All efforts at self-transformation challenge us to engage in on-going, critical self-examination and reflection about feminist practice, and about how we live in the world. This individual commitment, when coupled with engagement in collective discussion, provides a space for critical feedback which strengthens our efforts to change and make ourselves anew.

Clark Blaise

Indian standards of artistry, and Indian standards of humanity, and Indian standards of love, and of family, devotion, commitment, stand for me as the standard for how one should behave.

Richard G. Scott

The Lord will bless us with more baptisms if you make sure the ones you have are going to keep their commitments. The Lord will not prepare more people for baptism if we are not converting the ones we have.

Bob Dole

The difference between possible and impossible is hard work and commitment.

Diane Sawyer

I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.

Bruce Jenner

If you want to take your mission in life to the next level, if you're stuck and you don't know how to rise, don't look outside yourself. Look inside. Don't let your fears keep you mired in the crowd. Abolish your fears and raise your commitment level to the point of no return, and I guarantee you that the Champion Within will burst forth to propel you toward victory.